It had been nearly 73 years since any human had seen the Titanic, and then in 1985 the wreck was found.  

    The 1^st expedition to find the Titanic was in the summer of 1985 on the French-American ship Le Suroit, leaded by Robert D. Ballard and his French partner Jean-Louis Michel. They used the SAR sonar to find the Titanic, but after six weeks nothing was found of the wreck. They didn’t give up however; the search continued in August of that same year on the Knorr, with new tool, Argo. The big find occurred on September 1^st, 1985 just after midnight when the crew spotted items from the Titanic on Argo’s video screen.  The great liner had been discovered.

  Once the Titanic had been found the expedition continued and sent out a submarine, to find out more about the wreck, on July 13^th of 1986. Alvin, the submarine, took three people and a under water robot, Jason Junior, down to the wreck, a two and a half hour journey to the bottom of the ocean. There, they found remarkable aspects of the wreck of the Titanic.

Expeditions on the Titanic will never end. It continued into the 90’s with the submarine Nautile and its research ship Nadir. Throughout these expeditions artifacts have been found along with many other wonderful discoveries about the great ship, Titanic.